Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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  All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Happy, Resembles
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  Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Depend

• If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

• War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Conscience

• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Merely, Live
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  What strange illusion it is to suppose that beautiful is god.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Beauty, God

  Tags in Beautiful
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  Everybody wants to change the world but nobody wants to change.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Change

• Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Acceptance

• If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Abstinence
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  The Hero Of My Tale, whom i love with all the power of my soul, whom i have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Tale, Tried
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  What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Goodness

• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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• We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

  Leo Tolstoy

• War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

  Leo Tolstoy

• True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

  Leo Tolstoy

• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

• There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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• The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

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Leo Tolstoy (101)

Birth:	9th September, 1928
Death:	20th November, 1910
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

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